KS GOP Split On Income Tax Bill

By Newsroom

Republicans in the Kansas House are split over a bill passed by the chamber to increase income taxes. Forty of the chamber’s 85 Republicans voted Thursday for the measure when it passed on a 76-48 vote. Thirty-six of the chamber’s 40 Democrats supported the bill. Speaker Ron Ryckman Jr. opposed the bill and Majority Leader Don Hineman of Dighton supported it.